From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jonathan Nieder Subject: Re: [PATCH] fmt-merge-msg: use branch.$name.description Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2011 14:50:23 -0500 Message-ID: <20111007195023.GA29712@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net> References: <7vobxtwaog.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> <4E8EBDA7.2040007@drmicha.warpmail.net> <20111007091636.GA22822@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net> <4E8ECA25.205@drmicha.warpmail.net> <20111007100646.GA23193@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net> <4E8EED39.1060607@drmicha.warpmail.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org, Jeff King To: Michael J Gruber X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Oct 07 21:50:43 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RCGRN-0007Jb-Tk for gcvg-git-2@lo.gmane.org; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 21:50:42 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753958Ab1JGTuh (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:50:37 -0400 Received: from mail-yw0-f46.google.com ([209.85.213.46]:36258 "EHLO mail-yw0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752843Ab1JGTug (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:50:36 -0400 Received: by ywb5 with SMTP id 5so3956223ywb.19 for ; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:50:36 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=Y3WiQHouduwTZekLshkLCH8KDr9HgOrIbxqHlX/sQZ0=; b=hSLY/dt79C2e7jlfKvFpVPhQC3OWR7a90rjrasuKXQyc7cvkVwHXLC8Rb5WRbRAOZY lrUNZ9mme74XY0v9BMsPtCo+Kg0lCgqAvc+dWvtkrZFTGwcM/g0uWCkWInSkq2iePKWe 5zAfKFpb9bxqTp1J3Ea/3CWUE0Pg2437wJxrA= Received: by 10.100.129.7 with SMTP id b7mr1821185and.152.1318017036187; Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:50:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net (c-24-1-56-9.hsd1.il.comcast.net. [24.1.56.9]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j13sm27390831ani.19.2011.10.07.12.50.33 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 07 Oct 2011 12:50:34 -0700 (PDT) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4E8EED39.1060607@drmicha.warpmail.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21+46 (b01d63af6fea) (2011-07-01) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Michael J Gruber wrote: > Jonathan Nieder venit, vidit, dixit 07.10.2011 12:06: >> [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/181953/focus=182000 > > Funny to point me at a thread I participated in, when I'm saying this > thread should have continued there ;) Ah, sorry, I wasn't trying to initiate a debate. I provided the pointer to save time for others who haven't looked up the thread you were referring to yet. I am surprised that you seem to have missed what I meant by "branch names are local". I meant that what I call "master" is likely to be very different from what you call "master". Yes, we share commits and fetch them from each other, and I might even _decide_ that what I call "master" will be similar to what you call "master". Luckily, in practice people don't seem to feel constrained to decide so, and there are many workflows where my "master" is not your "master" and does not even contain commits that would be acceptable for your "master". This matters, a lot, because there is no easy way to partition a namespace of names descriptive for humans without a central authority to negotiate conflicts.